For a dose of scary fun, visit the "Danse Macabre" exhibit of the Brighton Art Guild at the CoBACH Center, 202 W. Main in Brighton by the Millpond. Art is up through November 10. Even the Historical Society's display of headless mannequins modeling old high school clothing has a macabre flavor. Jack modeled for the Whitmore Lake Portrait Group in his black hat and acknowledged its sinister Mafia look. Whitmore Lake itself has Mafia tales...I hear tell. Michigan's Damon Act of 1916 outlawed liquor effective in 1917, three years before prohibition went national with the Eighteenth Amendment in 1920. That gave us a three-year head start on bootlegging from Canada, Toledo and Chicago. The Purple Gang was part of this colorful past....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Purple_Gang. The Purple Gang and Al Capone had an agreement to "share" Michigan. The Purple Gang ran everything in east Michigan and Al Capone had everything west. Go to http://www.bigstarlakehistory.com/capone.htm Who knows how Whitmore Lake figured into that geography. Jack is not Mafia, but he can certainly look scary when he wants to. Makes me want to wish a Happy Halloween to Jimmy Hoffa, wherever he is...